Tourists given suspended jail sentences/fines after Bangkok-Sathorn raid

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Seven people have appeared in court including tourists following the raid on a premises in the Yannawa police jurisdiction in the Sathorn area of Bangkok.

 

They are the first group of defendants who have admitted their guilt.

 

Far more who have denied drug taking will see their cases in court today.

 

Prosecutors took four Chinese men, one Thai man and two Thai women to the Bangkok South Municipal court.

 

The Chinese men and Thai women admitted to taking the Class 1 drug methamphetamine and ketamine (Class 2).

 

They were given 1-2 month prison sentences and fines of 8-16,000 baht.

 

The fines were reduced to 4-8,000 baht due to their admissions and help in the case while the prison sentences were suspended for two years.

 

The Thai man was convicted after admitting to taking a prohibited liquid drug and acquiring funds illegally. 

 

He was fined 4,200 baht reduced in half due to admission. 

 

There are still 56 - mostly Chinese tourists - who will appear in court today. These are the ones who are fighting charges.

 

ASEAN NOW will bring you the result of the case as soon as we hear of it. 

 

Sources: Siam Rath | Daily News

 

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[phetphet]

I wonder if any will be blacklisted?

[Geoffggi]

37 minutes ago, phetphet said:

I wonder if any will be blacklisted?

???????????? Only Farangs get blacklisted, they don't want to upset the Chinese too much ..............LOL

[Mickmouse1]

2 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

???????????? Only Farangs get blacklisted, they don't want to upset the Chinese too much ..............LOL

Because of their big mouth 55

[bradiston]

2100 THB fine? £50? Why bother? Who was given 1 month, and who 2? Ditto the 8-16k fines? Are they deterrents or inducements? Pay 2000 THB and you can do what you like for an evening! Ah well, who cares?

[off road pat]

5 hours ago, phetphet said:

I wonder if any will be blacklisted?

Maybe not, but they will be on a list !! they will be remembered in future cases.

[Kaopad999]

5 hours ago, phetphet said:

I wonder if any will be blacklisted?

not if they have already paid off the cops and the judges have had their share.. 

[mikeymike100]

5 hours ago, phetphet said:

I wonder if any will be blacklisted?

A fair question and it remains to be seen what happens to the ones that are fighting the charges, but I have a hunch that none of the Chinese tourists will be blacklisted. It would look really bad?

[Mad mick]

CCP ????????Afiliated members 

[TheFishman1]

Oh one thing for sure the police do not want to go after the owners of the establishment TIT

[Cake Monster]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The fines were reduced to 4-8,000 baht due to their admissions and help in the case while the prison sentences were suspended for two years.

Run Rabbit, ... run, run run

[crazykopite]

And TAT want Chinese tourists to come in there millions once this is published in China I doubt there will be many coming to the land of smiles 

[Jonathan Swift]

6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

???????????? Only Farangs get blacklisted, they don't want to upset the Chinese too much ..............LOL

Oh it’s the poor victimized farang again is it? >sniff<
 

[barnsleyman]

11 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

Oh it’s the poor victimized farang again is it? >sniff<
 

 

6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

???????????? Only Farangs get blacklisted, they don't want to upset the Chinese too much ..............LOL

Chinese are Farang, only people born in Thailand are not Farang

[Maejo Man]

What about all the top end cars that were impounded??

[marcho]

7 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

???????????? Only Farangs get blacklisted, they don't want to upset the Chinese too much ..............LOL

Chinese are Farlangs

[RichardColeman]

I think giving 10 days 'community payback' sweeping streets each would be better. Fines are nothing

[topt]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

There are still 56 - mostly Chinese tourists - who will appear in court today. These are the ones who are fighting charges.

So what about the rest of them? From an earlier report -

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/10/27/chinese-links-to-nightlife-underworld-probed/

Quote

On Wednesday, after the raid, Police Major General Theeradet revealed that 104 of those detained at the venue had tested positive for illicit drugs including 50 men and 54 women.

These included 99 Chinese citizens, 51 women and 48 men, 3 Thai women, a Thai man and a Cambodian national.

 

 

[Thingamabob]

1 hour ago, barnsleyman said:

 

Chinese are Farang, only people born in Thailand are not Farang

Wrong. The word Farang applies to Westerners, not to other ethnicities. 

[NobbyClarke]

I am aware of an English guy in "The Hilton" doing 8 years for the same drug.

Thailand people will be on death row for these offences.

I don't know how these fines and sentences are fair and equal. Someone, somewhere in high places knows.

[barnsleyman]

you are wrong, the word Farang means Foreigner, so anybody not born in Thailand is a Farang, ie;-Foreigner.

 

[pixelaoffy]

And Thais doing drugs all the time. Encouraging cannabis use and now this.. Nobody beats thailand for Hypocrisy 

[SmokeandIce]

13 hours ago, barnsleyman said:

 

Chinese are Farang, only people born in Thailand are not Farang

You need to do more research or talk to more Thais.  Farang specifically refers to western foreigners.  Japanese are called yippon.  Black foreigners are cslled farang dam.  Cbinese are called Kuhn Cin 

[barnsleyman]

8 minutes ago, SmokeandIce said:

You need to do more research or talk to more Thais.  Farang specifically refers to western foreigners.  Japanese are called yippon.  Black foreigners are cslled farang dam.  Cbinese are called Kuhn Cin 

as I've already said Farang is what Thais call Foreigners, and it means ANYBODY not born in Thailand irrespective of their colour or the Country where they were born.I am not a newbie, I have lived in Thailnd 15 years next February.

[SmokeandIce]

12 hours ago, barnsleyman said:

as I've already said Farang is what Thais call Foreigners, and it means ANYBODY not born in Thailand irrespective of their colour or the Country where they were born.I am not a newbie, I have lived in Thailnd 15 years next February.

I suggest you google "are all foreigners in Thaiand called farang?"

 

This  is the result:

 

 

[Bim Smith]

2 hours ago, barnsleyman said:

 

Chinese are Farang, only people born in Thailand are not Farang

Not true. Farang is a term for white western European types. Not the chinese

[Bim Smith]

I thought China was closed to tourism. 

[Spock]

50 minutes ago, NobbyClarke said:

I am aware of an English guy in "The Hilton" doing 8 years for the same drug.

Thailand people will be on death row for these offences.

I don't know how these fines and sentences are fair and equal. Someone, somewhere in high places knows.

Exactly! Thai law is applied in highly unequal amounts depending on who you are, where you come from and how much you pay. It's disgraceful.

[Spock]

21 minutes ago, SmokeandIce said:

I suggest you google "are all foreigners in Thaiand called farang?"

 

This  is the result:

 

 

Who cares about the semantics. It's obvious the Chinese enjoy favourable treatment with regard to breaking the law. Money talks.

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, marcho said:

Chinese are Farlangs

Closer than Europe so they are Nearlangs